Top 100 Cornerstone Quotes
#1. Incentives are the cornerstone of modern life. And understanding them - or, often, deciphering them - is the key to understanding a problem, and how it might be solved.
Steven D. Levitt
#2. Free speech is the cornerstone to every right we have.
Mark Thomas
#3. Cleaniness is the cornerstone of discipline and the trademark of success
Wes Fesler
#4. The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.
M. Scott Peck
#5. Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze.
Garrison Keillor
#6. Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear.
Bill Frist
#7. For me, 'Arrested Development' is the cornerstone of recent television comedy. It's so incredibly flawless and perfect.
John Krasinski
#8. NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.
Victor Ponta
#9. The brain is the cornerstone of virtually every facet of our lives. I wish we knew more.
Tan Le
#10. He is the cornerstone of a defining life moment for me.
Kitty Thomas
#11. Experts who acknowledge the full extent of their ignorance may expect to be replaced by more confident competitors, who are better able to gain the trust of clients. An unbiased appreciation of uncertainty is a cornerstone of rationality - but it is not what people and organizations want.
Daniel Kahneman
#12. I hope that I have a body of work by the time that I'm done with all of this that I'm proud of. Certainly the cornerstone will always be Wonder Woman and I love her.
Lynda Carter
#13. Self-discipline is the cornerstone of any endeavor.
Bohdi Sanders
#14. Loss avoidance must be the cornerstone of your investment philosophy.
Seth Klarman
#15. Belief in one God is the cornerstone of all religions.
Mahatma Gandhi
#16. We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible.
Marco Rubio
#17. Whether one is formally educated or self educated; the cornerstone of success is education.
Will Foster
#18. Iran should not be denied the human right to knowledge ... the fear of America is Iran's attitude to Israel, and the cornerstone of America's foreign policy is the protection of Israel ... If Iran believes in Allah, and if Iran believes in the power of Allah, Iran can't be frightened by America.
Louis Farrakhan
#19. 'Watchmen' is a cornerstone of both DC Comics' publishing history and its future.
Jim Lee
#21. I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone.
Milos Forman
#22. What better day to lay the cornerstone of the Freedom Tower than the day our country declared its independence.
George Pataki
#23. When a man's home is born out of his heart and developed through his labor and perfected through his sense of beauty, it is the very cornerstone of life.
Gustav Stickley
#25. What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.
Hu Shih
#26. Freedom of the Spirit is the cornerstone of all freedom.
Ameen Rihani
#27. The United Nations had to be the cornerstone of our foreign policy.
Joseph P. Lash
#28. Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
B.C. Forbes
#29. The feeling of being valuable is a cornerstone of self-discipline because when you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself- including things like using your time well. In this way, self-discipline is self-caring.
M. Scott Peck
#30. Being kind is the most important thing I've ever been taught. That's what my parents always told me - more important than ambition or success is being kind to people. The cornerstone of my life. What I aspire to is to be kind.
Rafe Spall
#31. What we learn is that the scientist is as important a part of this experiment as the electron, and that the scientist and the electron are in fact connected. This experiment is the cornerstone of the holistic universe theory.
Danny Scheinmann
#32. AA 241:87 - I would argue that masturbation is the human animal's most important adaptation. The very cornerstone of our technological civilization.
Ernest Cline
#33. To me, forgiveness is the cornerstone of healing.
Sylvia Fraser
#34. No well-planned retirement should be without long term care insurance. It is the very cornerstone of retirement security.
Suze Orman
#35. Just speak your truth, it's an important cornerstone of how your life ends up sort of unfolding in front of you. Even if it's painful, if it's honest, it's going to bring you to the place you deserve to be.
Sara Bareilles
#36. Truthfulness is a cornerstone in character, and if it be not firmly laid in youth, there will ever after be a weak spot in the foundation.
Jefferson Davis
#37. Ensuring fairness in the American workplace should be a cornerstone of our economic policy.
Tim Scott
#38. Master of masters,
O maker of heroes,
Thunder the brave,
Irresistible message:
'Life is worth living
Through every grain of it
From the foundations
To the last edge
Of the cornerstone, death.
William Ernest Henley
#39. The Pacifica Network is a vital cornerstone of our independent media landscape that depends on your financial support. Please donate today to safeguard the future of listener-powered community radio.
Amy Goodman
#40. The search for meaning was the cornerstone of human disquiet
Blake Crouch
#41. I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.
Dwight Yoakam
#42. Respect for people is the cornerstone of communication and networking.
Susan RoAne
#43. Teachers, parents and school administrators: Today's teachers can create a Planet of Peace. The communication process you will learn by reading Nonviolent Communication is the cornerstone.
Robert Muller
#44. Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Mary Kay Ash
#45. Half an hour later, as I was deeply immersed in the story of The Man of the Hill, that curious, lengthy digression which seems to have nothing to do with the main narrative but is in fact its cornerstone..
Jonathan Coe
#46. An ancient cornerstone of prayer is that our desire to thank God is itself God's gift. Be grateful.
Richard Leonard
#47. A sales group with high morale and strong team spirit is a powerful unit, and team mentality is the cornerstone of success for any sales organization.
John R. Treace
#48. I don't think there is a musician today that hasn't been affected by Elvis' music. His definitive years - 1954-57 - can only be described as rock's cornerstone. He was the original cool.
Brian Setzer
#49. Democracy is the antithesis of liberty. The foundation and cornerstone of liberty is private property and majority rule is thus logically incompatible with this.
Daniel Alexander Brackins
#50. This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.
Barack Obama
#51. Protecting Afghan civilians is the cornerstone of our mission.
John R. Allen
#52. Education is the cornerstone of our communities and our country.
Bill Frist
#53. Look at the [Bill] Clinton Administration and now the [Barack] Obama administration more recently. What we believe is that we implement policies that help people reach the middle class which is the cornerstone of our economy.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
#54. We now know that unity, the cornerstone of Canada's greatness and prosperity, is above all a matter of emotion and reason for every citizen.
Kim Campbell
#55. The willingness to trust others even when you know you may be taken advantage of is the cornerstone of becoming civilized.
Orlando Aloysius Battista
#56. Children are just different from one another, especially in temperament. Some are shy, others bold; some active, others quiet; some confident, others less so. Respect for individual differences is in my view the cornerstone of good parent-child relationships.
Sandra Scarr
#57. Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.
Leland Stanford
#58. The symbiotic relationship between reading and writing is a cornerstone of our individual intellectual journey and our educational system. We write as an act of self-expression. We read because language renders unto us the vitality of real and imagined experience.
Marita Golden
#59. The reason people think I look good now is because I was never a beauty as a wee girl. And thank heavens. It's frightening to get old anyway, but if your looks were the cornerstone of your life, well, it would be very difficult.
Lulu
#60. Tolerance is a good cornerstone on which to build human relationships.
L. Ron Hubbard
#61. Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as the capacity of your mind to be calm and stable. Without calmness, the mirror of mindfulness will have an agitated and choppy surface and will not be able to reflect things with any accuracy.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#62. Because microfinance is so manageable in terms of the size of the loan, people have made it the cornerstone to lifting women out of poverty.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#63. I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for. That can encompass our elected officials' adherence to law and our country's return to the Geneva Conventions.
Samantha Power
#64. It was done with respect for both tradition and the full array of Nazi panoply. The mood was jovial at the May 1938 laying of the VW factory's cornerstone as Hitler tried his Beetle's rear seating. Robert Ley and Ferdinand Porsche were the most prominent of those behind him.
Karl Ludvigsen
#65. Putting food under lock and key was one of the great innovations of your culture. No other culture in history has ever put food under lock and key - and putting it there is the cornerstone of your economy.[ ... ] Because if the food wasn't under lock and key, Julie, who would work?
Daniel Quinn
#66. Some people die before their time so that others can live. It's a cornerstone of civilization.
John Malkovich
#67. The family is the greatest treasure of any country. Let us all work to protect and strengthen this, the cornerstone of society.
Pope Francis
#68. The evolution of the New Era rests on the cornerstone of Knowledge and Beauty.
Nicholas Roerich
#70. And the cornerstone of my economic policies, when I first got elected, was cutting taxes on everybody on who paid taxes.
George W. Bush
#71. Having the United Kingdom in the European Union gives us much greater confidence about the strength of the transatlantic union and is part of the cornerstone of institutions built after World War II that has made the world safer and more prosperous.
Barack Obama
#72. I never said I was a genius. I never said I was a cornerstone. I've never said I'm a legend in my own time. You never heard me say nothing like that.
Ray Charles
#73. From the reign of Emperor Constantine to the present, the Christian notion that sexual love brings spiritual death has been the cornerstone of Western sex law.
David Berkowitz
#74. Ah, lust! How one would like to make it the cornerstone of self! But I wouldn't go ahead and build on it if I were you.
Elfriede Jelinek
#75. ...one family's most beloved recipes can become a delicious cornerstone as humanity builds a more pluralistic world where the best pieces of every culture can be enjoyed.
Karen Anderson
#76. Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the artist's thought.
John French Sloan
#77. Healthcare is the cornerstone of the socialist state. It is the crown jewel of the welfare state.
Monica Crowley
#78. Education has the capability of making women better wives and mothers. Since families are the cornerstone of our society, we should strengthen women's abilities to teach their children because then we strengthen our society as a whole.
Jody Hedlund
#79. The family dinner table is the cornerstone of civilization and those who 'graze' from refrigerators or in front of the television sets are doomed to remain in a state of savagery.
Judith Martin
#80. Faith has been a cornerstone and foundation of our species, and other of the hominidae taxonomy for millions of years. It is the foundation of good relationships, confidence, and even discerning wisdom and truth.
Leviak B. Kelly
#81. The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity.
John Adams
#82. The cornerstone of our thoughts begins with the spirited flames of our far-reaching imagination.
Ian Segal
#83. I think it is a cornerstone of our electoral system that you raise electoral funds for elections but that doesn't mean that therefore the implication can be made that the recipients are incapable of transacting their interests and their duties towards people any differently.
Bill Shorten
#84. I believe in the literal rising of the body of Christ. It's the cornerstone of my Christian faith.
Francis Collins
#85. Tension is the cornerstone of any good story.
Eric Nylund
#86. Prior to 'The Shield,' basic cable was just a wasteland of reruns and NASCAR. When we came along, I think there was a collective, 'Hey, if they can do that, why can't we?' from the basic-cable networks of the world. We ended up being the cornerstone for a network, and a great one.
Michael Chiklis
#87. Evolution is the cornerstone of modern biology. Intelligent design is not a scientific concept.
John Marburger
#88. The belief that young people are incapable of making reasonable decisions is a cornerstone of our system of compulsory, closely monitored education.
Peter O. Gray
#89. Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
John Herschel
#90. The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate.
Thomas Jefferson
#91. Ethical and responsible behavior needs to become the cornerstone of corporate behavior
Manmohan Singh
#92. Two pure souls fused into one by an impassioned love-friends, counselors-a mutual support and inspiration to each other amid life's struggles, must know the highest human happiness;-this is marriage; and this is the only cornerstone of an enduring home.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#93. There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
Seneca The Younger
#94. For the baby boomer generation, a home is now seen not as the cornerstone of advancement but a ball and chain, restricting their ability and their mobility to move and seek out a job at another location.
Mortimer Zuckerman
#95. As marriage and the family institution constitute the foundation and chief cornerstone of civil society, it is of the greatest moment that the marriage-tie should never be dissolved save for the most urgent reason. I cannot assent, however, to the doctrine that it should never be dissolved at all.
Joseph P. Bradley
#96. The people of the United Kingdom have spoken, and we respect their decision. The special relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom is enduring, and the United Kingdom's membership in Nato remains a vital cornerstone of US foreign, security and economic policy.
Barack Obama
#97. Belief is the cornerstone of all the great achievements since the beginning of time.
Robert Anthony
#98. To all those whose progress remains hampered by ego-related distractions, let humility - the spiritual cornerstone upon which Karate rests - serve to remind one to place virtue before vice, values before vanity and principles before personalities.
Matsumura Sokon
#99. The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.
Robert Anton Wilson
#100. To fulfill the promise of economic opportunity, we must remain true to the principle that collective bargaining is a cornerstone of a free society and indispensable to a strong middle class.
Thomas Perez
